It's certainly frustrating, but the nice thing about RSS is that it's somewhat machine-readable, so we can fix some it automatically. The script I use to fetch

It's certainly frustrating, but the nice thing about RSS is that it's somewhat machine-readable, so we can fix some it automatically. The script I use to fetch RSS will optionally perform two extra steps: fetching the full-text (finding the link using a given XPath expression), then de-cluttering that HTML (removing banners, menu bars, etc.). The result is another RSS feed, which can be published somewhere, subscribed-to in a reader, etc. (I actually transform them to Maildir, since my preferred reader is mu4e)